tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63767342061141854172024-03-05T07:08:55.150-06:00Over The Homespun HedgeA special place where I can just be me, whoever that is.....Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-15136205252039370362010-03-22T06:07:00.001-05:002010-03-22T06:25:28.014-05:00Homemade Incense<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Here we are on a Monday again lol...i can't believe how fast the weeks go by. Yesterday was great...we had a lazy slow do nothing day and it's been awhile since that's happened. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I made a new homemade incense and I really liked it so I thought I would share it. It's a combination of herbs and oils for relaxation and it just plain puts you in a good mood.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">In a bowl mix 5 fingered pinches of the following dried herbs:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Jasmine</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Lavender</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Rose Petals</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Sage</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Add 5 drops each of:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Rose Ess. Oil</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Lavender Ess. Oil</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Add a heaping teaspoon of salt peter. (If you don't have salt peter, that's alright, just use a charcoal circle)</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Mix well and put about a tablespoon in a metal dish or bowl and light.</span></strong><br />
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<strong>Well...the black snake apparently is a mainstay here. He comes out every morning and sun himself in the same spot. I'm not freaking anymore and actually go check in the mornings to see if he's there. My mom and I names him Bentley. lol</strong><br />
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<strong>I've also been feeding the birds down on the dock and one of the birds (i think it's a gull) hovers just over my head and I toss him food. He catches it in the air, then flies right back and hovers over my head. It's the coolest thing....i'm feeding them dog food lol and they love it.</strong><br />
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<strong>It's been so fun getting to know the species of birds in Florida. I even picked up a bird guide at a garage sale so I can identify them. Mom and I put up bird feeders around the resort and we are having a blast watchin them. We have red headed woodpeckers that come to the suet regularily now. Do I sound like a nerd?? hahahahaha</strong><br />
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<strong>Well off to the garage sales...it's Friday!! WooooHooo</strong><br />
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<strong></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-50389944213774304352010-03-12T06:37:00.001-06:002010-03-12T06:38:25.193-06:00Garage Sale Day!!<strong><span style="color: black;">Since I've gotten down here, my mom and I have dubbed Fridays our garage saleing day. She gets so excited and gets the paper right away in the morning to check where they all are, then she maps out our route. We have coffee then head out at 9:00.</span></strong><br />
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<strong>This morning The Ladies Club is having their annual garage sale and she said there was some "good stuff" there last year. lol She's so cute.....</strong><br />
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<strong>I love garage sales and its so funny when other people think what they have is junk and to me it's a total treasure. In fact, I've decorated and set up my little cottage here solely on garage sale and junk store finds and everyone that comes in calls it a "doll house". :) </strong><br />
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<strong>And one thing I've learned from my hubby is the art of negotiation....well lol if you don't ask you don't get a lower price! lol</strong><br />
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<strong>Here is some of my ultimate garage sale finds over the years:</strong><br />
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<strong>A mens solid gold coin ring surrounded by diamonds - $1.00 (the ring was worth about $500)</strong><br />
<strong>A 30 gallon fish tank with stand, heater, filter and all the goodies - $5.00</strong><br />
<strong>4 large windows of pink and white long sheers - $1.00</strong><br />
<strong>Antique carnival glass candy dish - $1.00 (I collect carnival glass, turned out the candy dish was actually worth $480)</strong><br />
<strong>Antique dressing table - $5.00</strong><br />
<strong>Antique secretary desk - $30.00 (these are worth hundreds!)</strong><br />
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<strong>Write me a comment and tell me about some of your ultimate finds. I love this stuff!!!</strong><br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-45706900992175388142010-03-11T07:32:00.000-06:002010-03-11T07:32:56.761-06:00Homemade "Vicks" Vapor Rub<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Still some nasty viruses going around...3 of the tenants here at the resort are very sick with respirtory yuck (hope I don't get that crud). So I thought I would share my homemade vapor rub recipe, works great and easy to make.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">Homemade "Vicks" Vapor Rub</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">In a crockpot or double boiler on high, drop two huge tablespoons of vaseline and 2 T of beeswax.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">When melted together, turn off the heat and add:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">10 drops of peppermint oil</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">10 drops of wintergreen oil</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">3 drops of tea tree oil</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">10 drops of eucalyptus oil</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">5 drops of thyme oil</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">Break open 2 Vitamin E capsule and pour that in.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">Blend well and pour into a sterilized glass jar and let set. </span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">Cap tight and use for congestion and colds.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">Hope you all have a blessed and sunny day :)</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></span></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-40583981620100744732010-03-10T06:49:00.000-06:002010-03-10T06:49:28.487-06:00Handicapped Kids and Horsies<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">First of all, I want to say thank you for the sound wonderful opinions and advice about my dad yesterday. You are all right...he's depressed and really does need some counseling or meds or something. He never used to be this way...it started about two years after he and my mom moved down to manage this resort. I think he's just plain ol burned out....and needs to either get away from the resort or let me handle all the monkey business.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Soooooo...on to my story....When I was a little girl, we lived in a very small town in Iowa. My dad was transferred there thru J.C. Penney's and was the manager of the little one level store (he was with Penney's 31 years). This town was right out of a movie, complete with a town square and a Ben Franklin dime store. Every year, we had a rodeo, parades and alot of small town functions, everyone knew each other. My parents were the head of THE social circle there. One of their friends had horses, so my dad decides to buy one of his horses...that lead to a Tennessee Walker, a Shetland (JoJo, my sisters pony) and Dandy (my 4 year old quarter horse).</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">We kept our horses in the pasture behind the nursing home, which was really a two story white farmhouse complete with a beautiful white wooden barn. My sister Wendi and I would go everyday to play with our horses. She would cut JoJo's bangs, brush his teeth and would have taken him to bed if she could have. lol I was a little more practical with Dandy.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">One day, we led our horses down the street, across the road and up the hill to our house. There was a little dirt "alley" running between the houses and we were riding the horses up and down that. Dandy tripped in a pothole and we both went flying. I never got back on a horse since that day.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I love horses, they are beautiful and majestic, but because I fell and never got back on I was afraid to. Yesterday, I went out to this non profit place here called Heartland Horses for Handicapped. They do riding for handicapped children, it's just wonderful!! I'm going to be their new volunteer! I had so much fun with the horses and I'm hoping after I spend time with them and the children, I will get back on and ride. I've already picked one out to ride....lol...he's 19, named Simon and acts like a dog! lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I start volunteering next Tuesday and I'm on the feed and grooming schedule! I'm really really excited about it.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></span></strong><strong><span style="color: #783f04;"></span></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-71642020028645363862010-03-09T06:16:00.000-06:002010-03-09T06:16:22.736-06:00Help, Advice and A Shoulder<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">I need help, advice, a shoulder and some strength.....</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">You all know that I've moved to Florida to help manage my brothers resort. It's a good size resort....43 cabins on the lake. My parents have been managing it for 4 years, mostly my Dad, but he is 78 years old with COPD and has had one knee replaced with the other one needing it. He doesn't look 78 at all and is still really active. He golfs, plays tournament ping pong and goes to the gym 3 days a week. But he's become this grouchy man in the last few years, that swears alot and says whatever the hell he pleases to whoever he pleases.....He says almost daily that he doesn't give a "shit" about this place and he wants to turn the keys in.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">A typical conversation between him and a tenant:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Rob: Hey Jerry, how are you??</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Dad: You better not have that whore of a girlfriend of yours in your cabin.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Rob: Nope...she's not here but we'd like to have that empty cabin.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Dad: She's nothing but a f**king whore and she's the only female that I've ever met with no tits and a whole lot of balls.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Alrighty...you get the idea...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">My brother wants me to take on more responsibility here, but everytime I breathe my dad is yelling at me. It's all little stuff...and he's doing things behind my brothers back that is hurting the resort. For instance, yesterday, he just decided he didn't want to run the "no deposit" ad in the paper anymore and called and canceled it!?! wth</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">It's a sticky situation...I think my dad feels like he's losing control and I've been very very careful not to step on his toes. I've been running everything thru him and trying to stay out of his way.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Last night, i was talking to my mom about something (gossip about one of the tenants that is being stalked by another tenant) and my dad freaked out!! Told me to mind my own f**king business and blah blah blah. Then 5 mins later asked me if I wanted to play chess with him. I went home and cried out of shear frustration. :(</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">I don't know what to do or quite how to handle this....advice and help please!!! I feel my patience slipping away....</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">This is the sunrise I saw out my front window when I woke up this morning...it's beautiful and I truly love it here.</span></strong><br />
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<a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-84155140805999621962010-03-08T06:25:00.002-06:002010-03-09T06:34:19.061-06:00Snakes and Wreaths<strong>Sooooo....we are all sitting in my mom and dads garage on a beautiful morning yesterday, cool and sunny. My usual antsy self took over, so I got up and went to look out the back door. Oh my god! There was a 5 ft indigo snake with his head up, laying there in the sun!!! Of course I freaked out and started panicking....ran to get my sons for help. One of them went around the house and the other one crowded next to me. Then it moved!! eeeeeeeewwwwww went into the weeds and rattled! OMG! Then is raced off...like my heart needed that kind of jolt first thing in the morning. lol</strong><br />
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<strong>One good thing did come out of it tho....I discovered a bunch of very cool stuff in the woods behind the house and I made a nature wreath out of it. We also found some cactus growing back there, dug them up and put them in pots. lol </strong><br />
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<strong><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></strong><strong></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-21453801410448057772010-03-05T06:17:00.002-06:002010-03-08T06:55:42.330-06:00Mister and Misses<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">I was sitting on my mom's front porch yesterday and I heard a cardinal! Call me dumb, but I didn't know there were cardinals in Florida lol It gave me a little pang of homesickness for Minnesota. I spent so much time watching the birds and I'm not familiar with them in Florida yet.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">One day, mid winter a couple years ago, I was photographing a male and female cardinal that showed up alot at my birdfeeder. I started calling them Mister and Misses. I wasn't getting a good enuff photo from the window. It was freezing outside so I was trying to catch them thru the dirty screen. I got this brilliant idea to take the screen off my bay window, sit on the ledge and photograph them. So I did of course, furnace running and my dog shivering. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">I leaned too far and fell out the window!! Flat on my face in the snow...camera and all. hahahaha But I did get some good photos!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">So in honor of the cardinal I heard yesterday, I'm going to share the poem I wrote about my cardinals...Mister and Misses:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Mister flies in first and when the coast is clear</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Misses flies in, beneath him, but near.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Ever so watchful, he looks after his love</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">They're as close a fit, as a hand to a glove.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Misses wanders around and pecks at the feast,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">not bothered by Mister at all, not in the least.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">He protects her and tends to fuss and hover,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">keeping close, but back under the bramble cover.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">And when he thinks the Misses is almost through,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">down he goes to join her as if on que.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Still keeping an eye on the joy of his life,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">after all, his Misses compares to a wife.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Happy and content, Misses flies up,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Mister follows quick and abrupt.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Settled on a limb, leafless and long,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">the two burst out in a beautiful song.</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: #783f04;"><strong>They will raise their young, together as one,</strong></span><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">When the icy snow melts and the winter is done.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Their love fills the air, what an amazing pair.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Suddenly take flight and soar away,</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Mister and Misses will be back to enjoy another day.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></span></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-21757904252768497052010-03-03T07:43:00.001-06:002010-03-08T06:54:46.242-06:00Orange Pickin<strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">I'm sitting here in the warm Florida sun and watching them harvest the oranges in the grove across the road. It's actually quite the process and I never knew that. They are picking them by hand with ladders. Then a crane comes and lifts the buckets full of oranges and dumps them into a big truck. It's kinda cool to watch so I said to my mom that it might be kinda fun to do that....</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">She chocked on her coffee and said "are you kidding me?" Well no...why?</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">She told me that the orange trees are full of thorns and the workers get bit quite often by snakes. Eeeeeeeew ummm okay then....no thanks!! lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">On the other hand...I've also been watching them fly over the groves in planes spraying pesticides and I'm sure they get into the oranges no matter how much they are rinsed after being picked. And we are probably drinking the pesticides right out of the carton that costs an arm and a leg these days. So I'm goin to be passing on the oj now lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #b45f06;">But I'm told when the trees blossom the smell is downright orgasmic so I can't wait to experience that part. lol Enuff about oranges...i'm rambling now lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #b45f06;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></span></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-7767339308761434192010-02-24T04:35:00.000-06:002010-02-24T04:35:59.263-06:00I'm Back!!!!!!<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I bet you've all been wondering where the hell I went lol Well....i'm going to tell you...</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I decided to move to Florida with my son about a month ago to help manage my brothers resort. My husband is still working in Colorado, but will joining me here sometime in March.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">It's been a very crazy, crazy month but things are settled down now and I'm able to get back online and start blogging and doing what I do again. LOL</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">With that said......ooooooo wow I just love it down here. I'm already growing vege's and herbs and it just blows my mind. In Minnesota, I'd be sitting there staring out the window wishing the snow and cold away.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">We took a trip to the gulf Sunday and spent two hours walking in the surf collected shells...it was so fun! We found 11 sand dollars too!! lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Glad to be back and I'd love to hear from you all, so catch me up!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></span></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-57554213841403231322010-01-05T09:13:00.001-06:002010-01-05T09:14:19.541-06:00The Truck Stop<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">We decided to go out for dinner last night but wanted something different. So we drove over to Wisconsin to this very cool truck stop. It was like something out of a movie!! I know...I know...those of you that see them alot probably think I'm nuts, but we just don't get to experience this. lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">It was packed full of running semi trucks and it even had a semi truck that was a chapel!! We walked in and it was like walking into a restaurant in the south. (I grew up in the south) Truckers were sitting around gabbing in their plaid shirts and john deere caps. The truckers were talking to each other from their tables and it was so friendly and informal. The waitresses were sooooo nice and they were wearing white waitress dresses!! And we had southern fried chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy on HUGE platters....and it was all you can eat! hahahaha omg I'm still full!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">It was really fun and we joined their conversations and laughed alot...great night!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></span></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-89808309607871599592010-01-03T07:08:00.000-06:002010-01-03T07:08:49.667-06:00Another new day<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">I'm up before the sun this morning...can't sleep....and husband and number one son head back to Colorado this morning. They plan on leaving around 8 and that will get them into Denver around 7 tonight. They won't be back for a good month this time. It's been a little bit toooooooo much togetherness!!! 24/7 for almost two weeks lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">It's been boring the last few days so I guess I've raked my brain enough and just don't have anything good or exciting to blog about today, or it's just too early and I can't think. lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;">Hope you all have a great day and stay warm!! It's -20 here this morning! brrrrrrr</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #7f6000;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></span></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-57520237503418651172010-01-02T09:30:00.001-06:002010-01-02T09:32:02.621-06:00Starting out bad already<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">As I'm watching the ball drop on New Years Eve, I was filled with excitment and almost giddy. I was so looking forward to putting 2009 behind us....it wasn't a great year...full of family/friend death, kid problems, career change and economy woes. We all hugged and celebrated and whooped it up. Whew...it was behind us.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Then I got up yesterday morning. While drinking my coffee I got online and decided to check out bank accounts to make sure balances were correct. To my surprise our household account was $600 short!!! </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Turns out when we bought the chrysler 300M and put insurance on it, they have a new law! They run your address and anyone showing up with your address gets automatically put on your insurance even if they don't have a license or don't live with you!! So if we want insurance on that car we have to pay $600 a month because all the kids have our address on their licenses.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">WTH!!! First of all...my oldest lives in colorado and doesn't have a license (it was suspended a year ago). Second son, lives with us temporarily, but doesn't have a license because it was suspended. Daughter lives with us sometimes and sometimes elsewhere. Third son does live with us and we had him listed on the insurance and we were paying $130/month total for me, hubby and third son. And first and foremost, none of them are ever allowed to drive either one of our vehicles. Who needs 600 bucks taken out of their account right after xmas!!!!!!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">I called the insurance company and gave them addresses for the kids and that wasn't good enough and they didn't care that their licenses were suspended. They want electric bills or something of the sort proofing where they live. And of course they have none. So we are just screwed!! If I want insurance on the chrysler we have to pay $600 a month!!!!! And I'm not paying that each month, that's just ridiculous!!!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">So......so much for having a great 2010...it's already starting out bad. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;"><a href="http://www.mylivesignature.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://signatures.mylivesignature.com/54487/334/DB95890D0474A6BB8864D5E1CD3E03B2.png" style="background: none transparent scroll repeat 0% 0%; border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; border-right: 0px; border-top: 0px;" /></a></span></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-43479965837190568792009-12-30T09:52:00.001-06:002009-12-30T09:55:13.980-06:00A House Blessing<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">With the new year coming in a couple days, I wanted to share with you my personal House Blessing. I've used it for ions and I love the feel of my house after I've done this blessing. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">House Blessing:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Gather white sage stick or sandlewood incense, a white candle, dish of water, and a dish of salt. Place them in the middle of your house. Take the incense/sage stick to your east wall, light it saying:</span></strong><br />
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<div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Air with smoke now blow away</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Unpleasant energy from this home.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Take the smoking sage/incense and walk along every wall in your house and say the chant in each room you entr. When finished set the sage in a shell or dish in the center of your house.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Take the candle to the south wall and light it saying:</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Candle flame that flickers bright,</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Burn negative energy with your light.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Take the dish of water to the west wall. Sprinkle the water along the wall and say:</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Water wash this house and clean away</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">All the dirt and negativity.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Take the dish of salt to the north wall and sprinkle the salt and say:</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Salt of earth, both fertile and pure,</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Against negative energy, this house secure.</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="left"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Stand in the center of your house, open your arms and say:</span></strong><br />
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</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Spirits of the home and hearth,</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Bless these walls and give them warmth!</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Bless thewindows, roof and floor</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Bring joy to those who grace my door.</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Grant to all who enter here</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Ease of sorrow, pain and fear.</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Bring rest and comfort to the tired.</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Bring ease to anger, quench it's fire.</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Engulf this house with love and light</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">And laughter, joy and sunshine bright.</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Make this home a happy place</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Where all feel welcome in its space.</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">And see that only good befalls,</span></strong><br />
</div><div align="center"><strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Those who live and enter within these walls.</span></strong><br />
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We ended up going to the casino yesterday and it was not a good thing. We all lost money and it was waaaay too crowded. I actually did hit $200 on one machine, but then over time lost it in other machines one at a time plus gave out $20's to the kids. Oh well...good thing we only go up there a couple times a year. lol<br />
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On Christmas Day we all went to my sisters house, we take turns having it every year and my brother flew up from Florida. Whenever we get together, we revert back to being kids and act like we're 10!! hahahahaha So we decided to go outside and build a snowman. We put on hats and mittens and i soooooo don't do hats, I look like a complete idiot!! So of course my brother, PJ, grabs his cell and takes the most hideous picture of Wendi and I that I've ever seen in my life!!!!! I mean it's sooooooo bad we all went into a laughing fit and I had to run to the bathroom!! lol I looked like I was bald, my eyes are scwenched up, my mouth is open and i look like i'm giving birth. Hideous! We made our snowman anatomically correct of course and Wendi had a fit and made us take it down cuz she didn't want the "neighbors" to see it. hahahaha<br />
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The next day Wendi and PJ came out to my house so we could go downtown to the great little shops and spend our money. Right on the street, out of the blue and crowded with people, PJ opens his cell phone and shows me the picture again that he took of me and Wendi, I started laughing and he starts immitating one of my laughing attacks....he looked like he needed to be put in a home complete with his legs crossed, flinging his arms around, bent over, making faces and laughing like me (I sound like scooby doo when I laugh and i'm famous for peeing my pants when i have a laughing attack). I once peed on her trampoline at a July 4th party in front of everyone cuz i was laughing so hard when her son was flinging me around on the tramp. She had to give me her underpants and a pair of her jeans while we washed mine. hahahahaha Gawd I'm such a dork!!<br />
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Anyway...here he is on the sidewalk infront of all these people imitating me. They are literally stopping and looking at us. It was soooooooo funny!!! I go into a laughing attack and of course I'm froze in place with my legs crossed cuz if I move I'm gonna pee, head bent over and sounding like scooby doo!!!! So Wendi starts trying to help me into an antique store to find a bathroom and that made things even worse!! People were laughing and looking and staring at the spectacle we were making of ourselves. hahahahahahahaha And i of course started peeing my pants, but i did manage to get into the bathroom before I had a full blown issue. hahahaha Afterwards we all collected ourselves, we went into a Scent Chips store and the man inside says to me...."You were the girl outside peeing her pants weren't you?" OMG!!! I about died!! I turned right around and walked out of the store, leaned up against the building and proceeded to start laughing again. I'll never be able to go downtown again!! hahahaha<br />
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I think I'll go get my eyebrows done today! haha<br />
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We've been wassailing for 4 days and all I want to do is put my sweats on, curl up in front of the tv and chill. Last night was it...it's over and we're done. <br />
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I've sold all the puppies but one this week, can't believe how fast they went, but they are so cute and sweet people just grabbed them right up. It was hard seeing each one go...i got too attached and like a dummy named them all. lol The one I have left is the one I've kept aside because I'm debating keeping him. He's the biggest chubbiest sweetest, completely independent and he's my little bull roar. lol Walks with an attitude even and i've been calling him Wally.<br />
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My kids all had a good christmas and Mollee turned 20 yesterday, so I only have one left in the teens now. Gawd I feel old!! lol<br />
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They all want to go to the casino today...great family outing huh?? hahahahaha<br />
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I hope all of you had a very merry holiday and are all safe and sound :)<br />
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<strong>I had a horrible thing happen on Wednesday.....I fed the puppies then came upstairs, about 10 mins later I went down to start cleaning up puppy poop and one of the puppies was laying by the food dish dead....she choked on her food. It was so sad and we were all crying, I can't believe something like that happened! :( We tried to clear her airways but it was just too late, it happened so fast. So now there are 8 puppies.....</strong><br />
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<strong>We are going in for shots tomorrow and that is gonna be something else....8 puppies to the vet all at once....oh boy...I have an ad running for Sunday so I'm hoping I get lots of calls and we find good homes for them. Each and every one of them are absolutely adorable and they have such good dispositions and personalities. I'm debating keeping Wally (yes I've named some of them) LOL He's the biggest one, a major pudge and very independent. But I'm attached to Oney too, he was the first born and is so sweet and cuddly...always the first one there to greet me and always wants up.</strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Home....where your story begins.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Without love, a heart is like a puzzle with missing pieces.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Follow your heart like a flashlight in the dark.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Love has no faults.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Love means never having to say you're sorry.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">When life brings you rain, play in the puddles.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">If it's meant to be, it's up to me.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Beauty is not in the face but within, like a light in the heart.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Ayla (my yellow lab) was acting strange. She looked weird and couldn't sit still. I just figured the puppies were stressing her out and I tried to calm her. I went up to my daughters room to get something when to my horror I realized what was wrong with Ayla! My "daughter" AGAIN brought drugs into my house, left it in her purse in the middle of the bed and Ayla got into it. She ate a 1/4 ounce of pot laced with cocaine. OMG I freaked out!</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I took her to the vet right away and was completely embarassed to tell him what had happened. There really wasn't anything the vet could do except tell me to watch her and try and keep her calm til the effects wore off. If she went into cardiac arrest I was to bring her to emergency vet. Well geeeeeez, ya think!?! She seems okay this morning, and slept for about 12 hours last night, I hope it didn't do any permanent damage.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Dogs that ingest pot can have permanent damage including...heart problems, hallucinations, and kidney and bladder problems. I'm so damn mad I don't know even what to do. My daughter didn't even apologize, infact she thought it was kind of funny. I don't know whether to make her leave again (3x she's been kicked out), send her to rehab (been there done that), or let her stay. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I'm about to run away and eat a fuzzy worm!! (my mom used to say that when we would push her over the edge)</span></strong><br />
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<strong>Ms Biz Links~http://www.msbizlinks.com</strong><br />
<strong> a site where WAHMS and Crafters can promote their businesses by purchasing one word for a small fee. It's a very cool concept. Sale price is $200.00 and that includes the dot com, all the graphics and banners, all the rights and help from me. If you are interested, email me at <a href="mailto:tmesenbourg@yahoo.com">tmesenbourg@yahoo.com</a> and I can accept paypal.</strong><br />
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<strong> a site where WAHMS and Crafters can place a free ad or listing about their items and websites. It make money by advertisements from the WAHMS and Crafters or whatever clever way you come up with. Sale price is $150.00 and that includes the dot.com, all graphics and banners, all the rights and help from me. If you are interested, email me at <a href="mailto:tmesenbourg@yahoo.com">tmesenbourg@yahoo.com</a> and I can accept paypal for this one too.</strong><br />
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<strong></strong>Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14144160344985741317noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6376734206114185417.post-56446925538313032542009-12-11T08:52:00.000-06:002009-12-11T08:52:07.429-06:00It's Friday!!!<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">With that being said yesterday, now life can go on. Thank you all so very very much for still accepting me and respecting my beliefs. I have a diversity of blog buds and I'm so happy that we all just accept each other for who we are, we can COEXIST, whine together, be moms and wives together, and tough out life, and I absolutely love it. :) Thank you :)</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Now to my news!!! I get a new car today!! Yay!!! I drive a large SUV and it cost me at least $120 bucks a week in gas and I'm sick of it!! Soooo, we bought a Chrylser 300M and I get to pick it up at 10:30 today...I'm so excited!! I can fill it up for $30 bucks. lol We're keeping the SUV tho to drive when the roads are bad or when I need it to bring home something big, so that's good too.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">Here is one of my recipes for homemade "Vicks" vapor rub...it works so well and we use it all the time when someone has a cold or is congested:</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Vicks Vapor Rub</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">In a double boiler or crockpot, drop in two huge tablespoon fulls of petroleum jelly (vaseline)</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">add 1/2 t of beeswax </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">When melted add:</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">8-10 drops of peppermint oil</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">8-10 drops of wintergreen oil</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">3 drops of tea tree oil</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">8-10 drops of eucalyptus oil</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">Wicca is a nature-based religion, we celebrate Mother Nature and the changing seasons. We celebrate the phases of the moon and our ancestors. We celebrate the earth and all the wonders she has to offer. It's not scary, it's not dark and we don't even believe in satan. lol Our symbol is called a pentagram and the points represent Earth, Air, Fire, Water and the Spirit. These are the elements of existence. We celebrate and honor a Goddess and a God.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">The practice of Wicca is calm and peaceful and meditation is wonderful when being a mom and wife gets rough. I keep a rose quartz crystal handy all the time so I can just grab it and calm myself down if things are getting out of control. I believe that everything is made up of energy and if the energy is negative, we have the ability to change it by rearranging those energies. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I'm a very "white" witch...meaning all the things I practice are only good intentions. I have never ever practiced or cast harm on another because I life by Karma....whatever you do to others will come back to you three-fold. All my friends are "white" witches too. If you passed me on the street you would never know my beliefs except for a ring I wear on my left hand which signifies my ordination. My favorite clothes are my American Eagle and Hollister hoodies. My house is decorated in primitive country and I'm a fish tank nerd (I have 5 tanks and breed cichlids). lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I practice natural herbal medicine and make all my own salves, tinctures and concoctions. Most of the herbs are right out of my own herb garden. Bet you didn't know that plain old aspirin comes from a willow tree branch. I have an entire medicine chest of naturals meds and we reach for them for everything from a bruise to a sprained ankle.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">We live a very "normal" life and if it wasn't for my practice, which kept me sane, I would be in a looney bin! </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #783f04;">I just felt the need today to talk about this...don't ask me why...i guess i'm just a glutten for punishment. lol If any of you have any questions or comments or thoughts, please feel free to post them, I welcome them. :)</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Don't get me wrong....i like the tradition of Christmas...the music, the candles, the feasts, family gatherings and the perfect gift. It's everything leading up to it that makes me grumpy...long lines, crowded malls, the pressure of giving my family their christmas memories, gaining 10 lbs, long lists adding up to 1,000's of dollars from greedy ungrateful kids, trying to figure out what to get my parents and husband and an empty bank account. You get the idea. lol</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">I wish we could go back to way it was...the way it was intended...before malls and all the pressure, before it became so commercialized that I want to scream at the top of my lungs in the middle of the friggin mall!!!. I wish we could exchange handmade gifts and go caroling from door to door. I wish our kids would be esctatic over a piece of stick candy and a pair of knitted mittens. </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">I thought I would share with you my 18 year old sons christmas list that he handed to me the other day....hold onto your seats it's a doozie! :</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">a new electric guitar with a stage amp ($1,500)</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">an XBox ($300)</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">a new truck ($3,000)</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #0c343d;">Wonder how he would react if he got a stick of peppermint, a handmade scarf and an orange?? LOL My family will be SHOCKED when I announce on christmas eve that we will be starting a new family tradition....only homemade handmade gifts from here on out! LOL </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">I've also decided to go back to living my life as a vegetarian. It's a two fold reason....they do such scary things to our food these days from feeding cattle hormone growth induced corn to forcing chickens to grow to adulthood in a month and a half! I have chickens and I know it takes at least 4 months for them to reach adulthood. Beef recalls every other week, people dying from e-coli, it's not "if" you get cancer, it's "when". Anyway...I could go on and on but we all know what has happened to our food...it's all about big money and big corporations and they don't give a shit if we get sick or die from it, as long as we buy it. So I've decided to not give them one more penny of our hard earned money for their hormone induced processed "food". </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="color: #274e13;">And the other reason is...I just feel better. I feel healthier, thinner and I have a whole lot more energy. I'm not and never have been fanatical about it...in fact I rarely even talk about being vegetarian, but I just felt the need to this morning. lol </span></strong><br />
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<div style="text-align: left;">Dear Mesenbourg Children:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">First of all and foremost I want to say that I love you. I love you all with my very heart and soul and will always love you until the day I die....however....i have some things I need to say to you....<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">You are all grown now, well according to your ages you are. Yet, you have not moved out (well in and out and in and out and in out) and you are not using the wonderful motherly advice i've given you SINCE YOU WERE 5!!!!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Mikey~You are 23 years old! You lost your drivers license because you thought it would be so much cooler to drive like an idiot then drive with no insurance then miss your court date. You are gorgeous, talented and the nicest person I know, everyone just loves you. Yet you go through your life without a care in the world, taking one day at a time. The world is not like that...you have to care about your future...you have to have plans and directions and goals. Play your guitar, you are amazing with it but get your butt into college, pay your fines off and get your license back, fix your relationship with emmy...she loves you, and get your shit together!!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jorden~You are 21, officially an adult. Yet your quit your job because you had "worked there long enough", lost your drivers license because you didn't pay a seatbelt fine, lost Savannah because she wants you to get your act together and I'M SICK AND TIRED OF GIVING YOU RIDES!!! And now you just lost your brand new job because you didn't rennew your license when you turned 21 in AUGUST! We offered to pay to renew it, then you couldn't pass the eye test because you BROKE the glasses we bought for you and never BOTHERED to take them in and fix them, it was better to just throw them away huh?? Play your drums, by all means stay with your band, but get it together my son. Life is too short and before you know it, you will be 40 and still in the same situation. You have to have a job until your band "makes it", you have to support yourself, you need to have a license and a car and money and direction. We wrote down a plan, READ IT!!!<br />
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This is my favorite song from my son Jorden's band (Model43), Jorden is the drummer. The name of the song is Breathe:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Mollee~My only daughter, the one that has made me the most "proud", the one that has won the family award for most court dates, most hospitals stays, most drama, most mistakes and the most forgiveness from us. Enough is enough!! Time is up!! I see you are trying, but I've seen it before, I keep waiting for another explosion to happen, another accident, another crisis, another bottle of pills. You have to want to help yourself and I think you do finally. I love you so much and you've hurt me so badly, I've forgiven you for it all but I can never forget. And now you are about to lose your license from a DUI, which I might add you got 2 hours after your dad talked to you about drinking and driving!!!!! Get into cosmotology...you've talked about it your whole life, you are so good with hair and I know you would be successful. My patience are gone and you have sucked me dry.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Jon~My youngest....my bug man. You are 18 almost 19 and you are a super senior heading for a double super senior. What is your problem!! An education is a privledge and your right as an American citizen. It is a necessity to survive in this world. You were given an opportunity by being accepted at the ALC!! You are blowing it kid! You only have to go to school 3 hours a day and you get a week off every 6 weeks!! Yet it's just too hard on you to get up for school in the morning and now you've quit your job and are losing those school hours too!!!! You are also talented...play your guitar...become famous...buy me a mansion and a mazaratti, but GRADUATE FROM HIGH SCHOOL FIRST!!!! <br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The gravy train has gone off it's tracks my dear children. I'm tired...I'm worn out and I'm used up. I've spent my life being there for you, teaching you, guiding you, helping you, raising you, looking at the stretch marks you gave me, covering up the gray hairs you gave me, years of sleepless nights (from midnight feedings at 2 months to midnight worrying when you aren't home yet). AND THIS IS HOW YOU TURN OUT!?! GET IT TOGETHER OR ELSE!<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Love,<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Hey! This was fun...I feel better now. lol And yet I'm still smiling, but its the smile of an insane person!!<br />
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